Just want to say that I agree with you. Although it looks like people are split on the changes, I personally think it gives the developers an opportunity to add something new to Monk's kit, or expand on what it has, like Chakra, and hopefully make something that's both cohesive and fun.

To tell you the truth, I made a document a while ago that presented my thoughts and some ideas about what they could do with a Monk rework. Now, this was made in July before the live letter where they first announced the rework, so it is quite outdated. But, I would like to at least share these ideas for anyone that's interested and with some luck maybe the developers will see it. So if it's no trouble, I'll leave the link here:

https://imgur.com/a/MNKeu1E

I don't know if the developers will ever see this, or if the ideas presented can work for the benefit of Monk, but I would like to at least share it. Hopefully we'll see more improvements to Monk's gameplay in the future.